Van Jones, former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has teamed with Prince, one of America’s most prolific and groundbreaking artists of our time, to help mobilize thousands of civic minded people to build strong vibrant communities and to fix our economy from the ground up. Prince announced Friday that he will join Van Jones and return to the stage in Chicago, at the United Center beginning September 24th to support Rebuild the Dream founded by Van Jones.
The collaboration between Jones and Prince is part of ongoing efforts of Rebuild the Dream to engage artists and the creative community in telling the stories of real people affected by our broken economy and lifting up new, innovative solutions to rebuild our communities and create a better and fairer economic future.
“We couldn’t be more excited about partnering with a legend like Prince,” said Van Jones, Co-founder and President of Rebuild the Dream. “Our economic system is broken. Rebuild the Dream exists to unite arts and organize into a potent force to support the Dreams of Our Communities. There are few artists who have Prince’s unwavering commitment to a vision of a sustainable, fair economic future.”
“Rebuild the Dream is a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to help fix the economy not just here in the U.S. but globally as well. Using 21st-century digital technology, we advance highly inventive solutions that are designed to protect and expand our communities, while creating pathways to prosperity for those who are locked out of it. Our goal is to put People back to work—and pull our communities back together,” Jones said in an official statement.
When Prince returns to the stage in Chicago, the event will mark his first performance in the area since 2004. After Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” New York show, Rolling Stone said, “He had the crowd panting as soon as he hit the stage…It was unbelievably great. Do you go to a Prince show for predictable consistency? Ah, no. You go for moments of divinely inspired madness — and last night, he delivered as many of those as a fan could expect.”
Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday, September 6th at 10am Central at LiveNation.com.